{"id":11601,"date":"2009-12-21T10:40:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:41:49","slug":"copenhagen-climate-talks-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/12\/21\/copenhagen-climate-talks-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Climate Talks A Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-122109\/2009_12_21_leonard.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-122109\/2009_12_21_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/00661\/copenhagen_obama_661422a.jpg\" alt=\"copenhagen\" \/>Despite the work of hundreds of thousands of delegates, environmental activists, and ordinary citizens in Copenhagen Denmark over the past several weeks, the final 12-paragraph draft accord on Climate change involved only 5 nations including the US and China. The New York Times described it on Saturday as a &#8220;statement of an intention to act rather than a binding pledge to begin doing so.&#8221; While many smaller and poorer nations, and most environmental groups considered the talks a failure, Copenhagen is being heralded a success by the Obama administration. In fact, Obama headed to Copenhagen last week with a shockingly low offer of 4% emissions cuts by 2020. A pledge of $100 billion in aid to developing nations to cope with the real effects of global warming is the only potential silver lining, but is also widely agreed to be inadequate. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Lou Leonard, director of US climate policy for WWF (World Wildlife Fund)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\">www.worldwildlife.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Despite the work of hundreds of thousands of delegates, environmental activists, and ordinary citizens in Copenhagen Denmark over the past several weeks, the final 12-paragraph draft accord on Climate change involved only 5 nations including the US and China. The New York Times described it on Saturday as a &#8220;statement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}